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Castlevania fan uncovers new Konami code in 1999 game

@ 2024/04/24 read/post comments(0)

Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, the director's cut version of Castlevania for the Nintendo 64, is a classic today despite issues like blurry graphics and wonky gameplay. You'd think a title designed in the last century (well, 1999) would have no… Go To Full Article

Lexar SL500 Portable SSD Review

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Lexar has a long history of serving the flash-based consumer storage market in the form of SSDs, memory cards, and USB flash drives. After having started out as a Micron brand, the company was acquired by Longsys which has diversified… Go To Full Article

Rivian offers (up to) $5,000 discount if you trade-in your gas-powered truck

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Rivian will give you up to around $5,470 in discount if you trade in an eligible gas-powered truck or SUV when you purchase or lease a qualifying R1 electric vehicle package in the US and Canada. As an "Electric Upgrade… Go To Full Article

Microsoft launches a small AI for SMEs

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The company introduced an AI model called Phi-3-mini, which it said can outperform models twice its size across various benchmarks that evaluate language, coding and math capabilities, it said in a statement. Go To Full Article

AI on phones might be a bad idea

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Word on the street is that Qualcomm’s next flagship chip, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, could be quite power-hungry — so much so that we could see phones with batteries as large as 6,000mAh. Go To Full Article

AMD rolling out new adaptive SoCs

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Usually, multi-chip setups can be a bit of a headache with all their extra baggage, and a single hardware architecture doesn’t quite cut the mustard across all three AI stages – preprocessing, AI inference, and postprocessing. Go To Full Article

Unstable Intel high-end CPU patches kill performance

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Over the last few weeks, there's been a fair bit of chatter about high-end Chipzilla CPUs, like the Core i9-14900K, throwing a wobbly. Asus has knocked out a BIOS update for its Z790 motherboards to sort it, but it's nicked… Go To Full Article

Apple pulls vegan-friendly FineWoven cases

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In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Apple leaker and prototype collector known as “Kosutami.” explained that Apple has stopped production of FineWoven accessories due to its poor durability. The company may move to another non-leather material for its premium… Go To Full Article

Huawei wants to bring Harmony to the world

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Huawei's rotating chairman Erik Xu, told the gathered throngs at its 21st Analyst Summit in Shenzhen: "We're going to graft hard to get the HarmonyOS app ecosystem sorted in China first, then we'll start nudging it out to the rest… Go To Full Article

Apple buys its AI tech from the French

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Datakalab is a Paris outfit dabbling in some nifty artificial intelligence compression and computer vision tech. 9to5Mac’s been chirping about it, saying these Datakalab boffins are all about “low power, runtime efficient, and deep learning algorithms” that don’t need a… Go To Full Article

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